Senior Director, Data Applications & Insights

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Summary:

In this role, you will lead the delivery of analytics services across clinical, operational, ambulatory, physician, and continuum-of-care domains, ensuring insights from enterprise data drive client and business outcomes. You will oversee reporting and BI capabilities, partner with cross-functional teams to align methodologies and delivery standards, and guide staff in supporting organizational analytics needs. You will also lead governance and management of the Ambulatory Quality & Accountability (AQA) Study Program, including methodology ownership, metric development, and steering committee engagement, while advancing delivery excellence and performance improvement across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee delivery of analytics services supporting clinical, operational, ambulatory, physician, and continuum-of-care data needs.
• Serve as primary leader for governance and management of AQA Study Program, including methodology ownership, documentation, metric development and retirement, and scorecard production.
• Coordinate quarterly AQA calculators, annual scorecard creation, and communication with internal stakeholders.
• Serve as leader of the AQA Steering Committee, overseeing governance, processes, and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate with developer teams, product strategy teams, analytics teams, and delivery teams to ensure AQA priorities are represented in roadmaps, data acquisition, and integrated insights.
• Provide tools, training, documentation, and support to delivery teams to enable client performance improvement using AQA metrics and methodologies.
• Support internal training for analytics, insights, delivery, data operations, and sales teams to ensure understanding of AQA processes and analytic methodologies.
• Lead the transition of AQA processes and methodologies from SAS to a new technology platform by end of 2026 in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrate commitment to leadership development by advancing assigned leadership, professional, and technical competencies.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 10 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Expertise in analytics delivery, BI systems, data governance, and cross-functional leadership required.
• Strong understanding of healthcare analytics across clinical, operational, ambulatory, physician, and continuum-of-care domains required.
• Experience developing and documenting analytic methodologies, metric frameworks, or performance measurement models required.
• Expertise in data governance is highly preferred.
• Experience with Data Bricks and Python preferred
• Ability to lead complex governance structures, steering committees, and cross-functional working groups.
• Strong communication and executive engagement skills, including the ability to translate complex analytics for diverse audiences.
• Experience supporting performance improvement initiatives with actionable analytic insights.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through large-scale technology or platform transitions.
• Willingness to travel.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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